Ottawa:

An Indian-origin truck driver who triggered a horrific bus crash in Canada that killed 16 members and injured 13 others of a junior hockey staff in 2018 was on Friday ordered to be deported to India.

Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, a truck driver from Calgary, barreled by way of a cease signal and into the trail of the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey staff’s bus at a rural intersection close to Tisdale in Saskatchewan Province.

Sixteen individuals on the bus had been killed and 13 had been injured within the accident on April 6, 2018.

The choice got here on Friday at an Immigration and Refugee Board listening to in Calgary for Sidhu.

Sidhu’s lawyer Michael Greene has stated the choice was a foregone conclusion, as all that is required to deport Sidhu is proof that he is not a Canadian citizen and he dedicated a severe crime, CBC Information reported.

Sidhu is from India and has everlasting resident standing in Canada.

“It is fairly open and shut,” Greene was quoted as saying by the Canadian Press information company.

“There’s nothing to contest, so these are as clear as day. These hearings are often accomplished lickety-split.” He was granted parole after being sentenced to eight years for harmful driving within the 2018 bus crash.

Sidhu’s lawyer has stated there are nonetheless quite a few different authorized procedures to return, and the deportation course of might take months or years.

In December, the Federal Courtroom dismissed functions from Sidhu’s lawyer, who had argued border officers didn’t contemplate Sidhu’s beforehand clear felony file and regret. He wished the courtroom to order the border company to conduct a second evaluation.

“That is a part of the disappointment of the entire course of. We’re left with a state of affairs the place everlasting residents haven’t any rights in any way to have their private circumstances thought-about,” Greene stated, earlier than Friday’s listening to.

“Our solely mechanism is (that) after he is ordered deported, we’ll ask them to provide again his (everlasting resident) standing (based mostly) on humanitarian grounds.

“However within the meantime, he has no standing.” Greene stated Sidhu will not instantly be taken into custody after the listening to is over, the report stated.

He stated a pre-removal danger evaluation needs to be performed and Sidhu may also ask for a deferral whereas his request for everlasting resident standing is taken into account.

The method, Greene stated, might take months or years.

A number of members of the family of these killed within the crash have stated they need Sidhu deported.

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